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Guev illustration. Art Animated GIF. ZAC'S HAUNTED HOUSE - DENNIS COOPER. Dennis Cooper’s tenth novel bears all of the earmarks of his legendary and controversial work — intricate formal and stylistic play, disturbing content, an exploration of the borderline between fantasy and reality, concern for the emotions and dilemmas of youth, etc. — but it is both something unique in his body of writing and possibly something of a world’s first in the novel genre itself.

Animal Gif /// on Behance. The 16-year-old gif star who’s melting the art world. Philip Intile is entering his last year of secondary school.

He already has his eye on a potential career path: one that loops on and on and on. He’s only 16, but Intile is an artist (known as Pi-Slices in the world of gif art). He’s a gif-maker and the founder of GIF Artists Collective, a group of digital artists whose “gif art” was recently spotlighted by Tumblr, the micro-blogging platform that houses much of their work – gifs of sliding rays of sun, gifs of brains melting into a slippery pink ooze, gifs of abstract crystals morphing shape and shifting colour. Gifs, those moving pictures (“Harry Potter-like” as one gif artist described them) that endlessly loop on social media sites like Tumblr, Reddit, imgur and more, have previously been confined to the role of quick reaction or speedy punchline – something from Ru Paul’s Drag Race (an American reality competition television series) or a pratfall from YouTube, repeated over and over and over.

Now that we live in the future, though, we can have the best of both worlds—animated movie posters. This collection of GIF movie posters is everything film buffs want film advertisements to be. There’s a Looper image with a moving clock, a Drive poster with driving, even an ad for Vertigo that could induce vertigo. The poster sets, which appeared earlier this week on Imgur, are brilliant and mesmerizing. In some cases, they even capture that one perfect moment in the film–like Katniss Everdeen taking that badass bow-and-arrow shot in front of the Gamemakers in The Hunger Games. And we’re just putting this out there: If film studios posted these GIFs on those digital billboards at bus stops, we’d always stop and stare instead of just walking on by.